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The merchant boasted to him: ‘After the war between France and Germany I was a usurer and with extorting, cozening, forfeiting and tricks belonging under brokery, I filled the gaols with bankrupts in a year.’
At the end of ten years everything was paid off, everything, the usurer 's charges and the accumulation of superimposed interest.
Unfortunately, Antonio's money is currently tied up in shipping ventures, but because he desperately wants to help his dear friend, he goes to the usurer Shylock to borrow the funds.
The biblical parable of the talents was the central interpretative puzzle in this regard since it appears to advocate usury and, worse still, the careful preserver loses all and the usurer gains more.
In the West the taking of usury was prohibited to both the clergy and the laity in the ninth century, and the sanctions against usurers were intensified by a series of conciliar decrees between 1179 and 1311.
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